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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NRC v. Texas: Supreme Court weighs challenge to NRC authority in spent fuel storage case
The State of Texas has not one but two ongoing federal court challenges to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that could, if successful, turn decades of NRC regulations, precedent, and case law on its head.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|10:00–11:45AM CDT|Chicago Ballroom A
Session Chair:
Dillon R. Shaver
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Izabela Gutowska
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Numerical Investigation on the Potential Use of Different Liquid Metals for the MARVEL-IHX
10:00–10:20AM CDT
Sutapa Biswas (Idaho State), Amir Ali (Idaho State), Scott F. Wahlquist (Idaho State), Eslam Ali (Idaho State)
Paper
Numerical Investigation of Low Prandtl and Reynolds Flow in PLANDTL-DHX
10:20–10:40AM CDT
JunYoung Lee (Chungang Univ.), Jae-Ho Jeong (Chungang Univ.), Myeongjin Seo (Chung-Ang Univ.)
Devoloping a CFD Based Digital Twin of Natural Convective Flows
10:40–11:00AM CDT
Kyle Petz (Oregon State), Izabela Gutowska (Oregon State)
Extended Simulation of a Postulated Assembly Blockage Accident in a Sodium-Cooled Metal-Fuel Fast Reactor with the SAS-RES Safety Analysis Code
11:00–11:20AM CDT
Adrian Tentner (ANL), Taeil Kim (ANL)
Large Eddy Simulation of a Liquid Metal Microreactor Core
11:20–11:40AM CDT
Carolina Da Silva Bourdot Dutra (Penn State), Victor Coppo Leite (Penn State), Elia Merzari (Penn State)
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